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Do you keep a backlog of 'ready-to-publish' articles?

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Do you keep a backlog of 'ready-to-publish' articles?

Jan 11

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Keeping a backlog of 'ready-to-publish articles' is useful as it provides you with some material to post when you feel less inspired or have no time to work on new material.

What's your approach? Do you prepare posts in advance?

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Hi Madza, good question. I still do not have 'ready-to-publish articles' backlog because I was throwing everything I have at milanlatinovic.com to make "initial content".

However, this is something I will do in 2021. Idea is to have 5-10 ready to publish posts so I can have continuity in the 1-post-per-2-weeks approach. :)

I do have a backlog of drafts already. This is interesting as well. I write drafts only with headings (and subheadings) and bullets. Then, when I have the whole story that I want to tell, I would go through the article and write it in a nice way.

If you open my blog and start analyzing some of my latest articles you will recognize that they are very well planned, organized, and linked. This is because of the "draft backlog in bullets" approach if that makes sense. :D

Hopefully, someone else will find this helpful.

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they are very well planned, organized, and linked

Thanks the way to go 👍😉

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My crappy website setup wouldn't let me keep a backlog, because I have to rsync the whole site and cannot pick and choose.
I used to have this capability when I'm using FTP upload, but I didn't bother to setup FTP since the 2017 rebuild.

I keep at writing an article or developing a website feature until it's finished and published, before starting the next one.
I select article topic carefully so that I would not have to scrape an incomplete article.

Photos and screenshots and command lines and GPS coordinates prepared for an future article are technically not a draft of the article.
These are kept in Nextcloud.

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